Pioneering patients: "Public intrusion is a given"

December 12, 2006

Patients in first-ever medical procedures are under the public microscope – whether they like it or not:

For patients involved in historic medical procedures, there’s no such thing as keeping a low profile. Medicine may have advanced at just the right time to help them, but seizing the moment often means subjecting their lives, their decisions and their most intimate post-op problems to broad scrutiny. Public interest is understandable: Groundbreaking procedures tend to inspire hope that medical ingenuity can defeat the most serious ailments. For hospitals and doctors, attention can also lead to grants, additional research and a raised stature.



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{ 1 comment }

1 Gasman December 13, 2006 at 6:38 pm

“…she and her husband agreed to attend a press conference at the hospital, expecting it to be a quiet affair.”

I’m not certain this is a good example of Public Intrusion. They were invited to a press conference. Would anyone who has ever watched television new consider a press conference a quiet affair? They had every opportunity to maintain a quiet anonymity and elected to seize the spotlight, only later protesting modesty.

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